RFC: redhat-cluster-suite demotion to universe

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Ante,

2010/2/7 Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr>:
>
> Well, parts of cluster suite will be unmaintained. I doubt support for
> distributed lock manager or gfs2 will be dropped (and those are only
> things we need). Stuff that will go away are cman, rgmanager, etc...
>

Agreed - it's my understanding as well. DLM and GFS2 will be part of
the new cluster stack and thus be maintained. While cman and rgmanager
should be replaced with pacemaker and some other daemons.

If I understand correctly it's currently impossible to upgrade
automatically from cman/rgmanager to the new stack. Fabio told me that
there were plans to add support for the existing cman/rgman
configuration syntax to the new components (pacemaker) but that
feature was not ready yet.

So how would one upgrade from Hardy rhcs to the new cluster stack in Lucid?

> I would really like to see new stack in main. I've spent last two-three
> weeks testing it, adopting other packages and I'd rather use new stack
> than any version of cman (RHCS).
>
> To be clear, I do have strong feelings about this.

I understand your point of view and appreciate the effort you've put
into testing the new stack - which is already in universe IIUC. I'm
trying to figure out what we'd loose with the new cluster stack and
how upgrades from Hardy rhcs should be handled.

I hope that through out the discussion we'll be able to reach a
consensus on which cluster stack options makes the most sense for the
next LTS release.

-- 
Mathias Gug
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